Vessel of Clay

Some people epitomize the age in which they live, and no one epitomized the
“golden age” of American Catholicism—roughly the three decades
prior to the Second Vatican Council—better than Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen. Thomas Reeves’s book is the latest and by far the best biography
of the famous prelate and is likely to remain so for a long time.

Born in central Illinois in 1895, Sheen was a typical American Catholic of his
age in that he came from a family in humble c
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